What's the Problem? Multilevel Governance and Problem‐Solving

Multilevel Governance and Development

In this paper we explore the discourses of ecology, environmental economics, new environmental pragmatism and social ecological economics as they relate to the value of ecosystems and biodiversity. Conceptualizing biodiversity and ecosystems as goods and services that can be represented by monetary values in policy processes is an economic discourse being increasingly championed by ecologists a...

The Economics of Multilevel Governance

This paper proposes a framework for analyzing governance in terms of centralization vs. decentralization of the provision of an order to a given community. It is the main tradeoff behind many issues related to the organization of the institutions that frame either political activities (constitution and federalism) or the economy (e.g. public vs. private/self regulation). We systematically analy...

The multilevel governance of migration

Multilevel Governance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Theories of multilevel governance in International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE) literature remain in their infancy. These nascent conceptualisations of multilevel governance suffer from a number of methodological, theoretical and practical flaws. In the main these derive from an excessive reliance upon state centred understandings of political geography engendered by...

Rapid Survey of Wasting and Stunting in Children: Whats New, Whats Old and Whats the Buzz?

Nationwide Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF in 2013-14 showed a marked improvement in the status of the child malnutrition over the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) that was conducted in 2005-06. Despite some impressive gains in the anthropometric indicators of malnutrition, the absolute levels remain high, and of c...